Fiue hundred pointes of good Husbandrie as well for the Champion, or open countrie, as also for the woodland, or Seuerall, mixed in euerie Month with Huswiferie, ouer and besides the booke of Huswiferie, corrected, better ordered, and newly augmented to a fourth part more, with diuers other lessons, as a diet for the fermer, of the properties of winds, planets, hops, herbes, bees, and approoued remedies for sheepe and cattle, with many other matters both profitable and not vnpleasant for the Reader. Also a table of husbandrie at the beginning of this booke: and another of huswiferie at the end: for the better and easier finding of any matter conteined in the same. Newly set foorth by Thomas Tusser |
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Septembers abstract.
Chap. 14.
1
Now enter Iohn,old fermer is gon.
2
What champion vseth,that woodland refuseth.
3
Good ferme now take,keepe still, or forsake.
4
What helpes reuiue,the thriuing, to thriue.
5
Plough fence and store,aught else before.
6
By tits, and such,few gaineth much.
7
Horse strong, and light,soone charges quite.
Light head, and purse,
what lightnes wurse.
8
Who goeth a borrowing,goeth a sorrowing.
Few lends, (but fooles)
their working tooles.
9
Greene rie haue some,er Mihelmas come.
10
Grant soile hir lust,sowe rie in the dust.
11
Cleane rie that sowes,the better crop mowes.
12
Mixe rie aright,with wheat that is whight.
13
See corne sowen in,too thick, nor too thin.
For want of seede,
land yeeldeth weede.
14
With sling, or bowe,keepe corne from Crowe.
15
Trench hedge and forrow,that water may thorow.
Deepe dike saues much,
from drouers, and such.
16
Amend marsh wall,Crab holes, and all.
17
Geld bulles, and rams,sewe ponds, amend dams.
Sell webster thy wull,
fruite gather, grapes pull.
For feare of drabs,
go gather thy crabs.
18
Pluck fruite to last,when Mihell is past.
19
Forget it not,fruit brused will rot.
Light ladder, and long,
doth tree least wrong.
Go gather with skill,
and gather that will.
20
Driue hiue, good conie,for waxe, and for honie.
No driuing of hiue,
till yeeres past fiue.
21
Good dwelling giue bee,or hence goes shee.
22
Put bore in stie,for Hallontide nie.
23
With bore (good Gisse)let naught be amisse.
24
Karle hempe, left greene,now pluck vp cleene.
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once had out his seed.
I pray thee (good Kit)
drowne hempe in pit.
25
Of al the rest,white hempe is best.
Let skilfull be gotten,
least hempe prooue rotten.
26
Set strawberies wife,I loue them for life.
27
Plant Respe, and rose,and such as those.
28
Go gather vp mast,er time be past.
Mast fats vp swine,
mast kils vp kine.
29
Let hogs be roong,both old and yoong.
30
No mast vpon oke,no longer vnyoke.
If hog doe crie,
giue eare and eie.
31
Hogs haunting corne,may not be borne.
32
Good neighbour thow,good custome alow.
No scaring with dog,
whilst mast is for hog.
33
Get home with the brake,to brue with and bake.
To couer the shed,
drie ouer the hed.
To lie vnder cow:
to rot vnder mow.
To serue to burne,
for many a turne.
34
To sawpit drawe,boord log, to sawe.
Let timber be haile,
least profit doe quaile.
Such boord, and pale,
is readie sale.
35
Sawne slab, let lie,for stable, and stie,
Sawe dust spred thick,
makes alley trick.
36
Keepe safe thy fence,scare breakhedge thence,
A drab, and a knaue,
will prowle to haue.
37
Mark winde, and Moone,at midnight, and noone.
Some rigs thy plow,
some milks thy cow.
38
Red cur, or black,few prowlers lack.
39
Some steale, some pilch,some all away filch.
Mark losses with greefe,
through prouling theefe.
Thus endeth Septembers abstract, agreeing with Septembers husbandrie.
Other short remembrances.
Now friend, as ye wish,
go seuer thy fish:
When friend shall come,
to be sure of some.
go seuer thy fish:
When friend shall come,
to be sure of some.
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Thy ponds renew,
put eeles in stew.
To leeue till Lent,
and then to be spent.
put eeles in stew.
To leeue till Lent,
and then to be spent.
Set priuie, or prim,
set boxe like him.
Set Giloflowers all,
that growes on the wall.
set boxe like him.
Set Giloflowers all,
that growes on the wall.
Set herbes some more,
for winter store.
Sowe seedes for pot,
for flowers sowe not.
for winter store.
Sowe seedes for pot,
for flowers sowe not.
Here ends Septembers short remembrances.
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